A Case Against the AI-IDE

If you’ve been programming, or learning programming over the past year or so, you should have seen many of the coding assistants… MS Copilot, Claude, Chatgpt and similar. While these have been very handy in looking up how to build a thing – and even building the thing (sometimes successfully!) There are a lot of reasons why you should do the real coding for your project… Or at least read and add your changes and files manually, from a browser vs built in IDE features.

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Two articles and a free Zoom weekly series on the future of AI

AI and tools like ChatGPT and Bing Assistant, Claude etc. may have changed the way we work in many industries. I just recently found that asking obscure programming questions give some surprisingly useful or halfway working responses in Microsoft Bing assistant. But will it be what some consider an AGI – a general intelligence to match human thought or ingenuity?

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ChatGPT is bad at math? Turns out, so is Microsoft’s assistant.

Recently it was noted, by Arstechnica and others, that ChatGPT doesn’t seem to be great at math questions – recent tests have found one can get wrong answers much more often than a calculator, and even apologize if you insist that it is wrong (suggesting it doesn’t know math after 2021… lol). but what about other similar assistants?

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